Sentences with phrase «public safety bill»

The tribes have proposed 25 percent of slots and 25 percent of table games in the public safety bill.

The public safety bill, which is being drafted, requires the executive to submit any prison closure plan a year in advance to the legislature for ratification or amendment.

Not exact matches

On Tuesday, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously voted to pass a resolution opposing that bill, claiming it would be a detriment to public safety.

Anyone who opposed the bill, Public Safety Minister Vic Toews famously said at the time, was standing «with the child pornographers.»

In June, Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale promised to consult Canadians on the bill, a public engagement exercise that he pledged would «probably be the most extensive the government of the country has ever seen.&Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale promised to consult Canadians on the bill, a public engagement exercise that he pledged would «probably be the most extensive the government of the country has ever seen.&public engagement exercise that he pledged would «probably be the most extensive the government of the country has ever seen.»

Bill 6, the government of Alberta's contentious farm workers» safety legislation, sparked public debate as no other legislation has done in recent years.

• Restore full collective bargaining rights; • Restore strong health and safety protections in workplaces under federal jurisdiction, watered down by the previous government; • Repeal anti-labour Bills C - 525 and C - 377; C - 10; C - 4; C - 59; • Restore pay equity in the public service, with full union right of representation; • Re-open the nine veterans» affairs offices shut down in 2014.

Illinois Association of Chiefs of Police are against the bill, they said that marijuana is a threat to public health and safety.

Assembly Bill 97 of 25 July 2008 amends California's Health and Safety Code to require all food facilities (restaurants) in the state, with the exception of public school cafeterias, to cease using artificial trans fats by January 2011.

WASHINGTON - In response to the passage of Senate Bill 1492, which directs the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to build a public awareness campaign to promote online safety tactics to protect children on the Internet, while also setting up a working group on the issue.

WASHINGTON - October 1, 2008 — In response to the passage of Senate Bill 1492, which directs the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to build a public awareness campaign to promote online safety tactics to protect children on the Internet, while also setting up a working group on the issue, CEO of the Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI), Stephen Balkam, made the following statsafety tactics to protect children on the Internet, while also setting up a working group on the issue, CEO of the Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI), Stephen Balkam, made the following statSafety Institute (FOSI), Stephen Balkam, made the following statement:

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While Schakowsky's bill was welcomed by school cafeteria managers and food - safety advocates, industry officials said the dissemination of safety records could stoke unnecessary public fears and prove difficult for cafeteria managers to interpret.

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Also at 10 a.m., NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton will testify before the NYC Council Public Safety Committee on the budget, City Hall, Manhattan.

DiNapoli declined to pick sides in the latest fight between Cuomo and NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio over funding for NYC Health + Hospitals, the nation's largest municipal public hospital system and New York's largest provider of safety - net care.

At 2:30 p.m., NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio makes a public safety announcement, Atlantic Avenue — Barclays Center Subway Station Entrance, Brooklyn.

Mayor de Blasio said the city hit a milestone Wednesday toward eradicating homelessness among military veterans — even as NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton took to the airwaves to identify street dwellers as a source of unease about public safety.

As the State Senate today passed «Kirby & Quigley's Law» by a 59 - 2 vote, Senator Jim Tedisco (R,C,I,REF - Glenville), the author and lead sponsor of the bill, has announced a new online petition drive to harness the power of the people to urge the Assembly to bring the public safety measure to the Floor of the New York State Assembly for a debate and up or down vote.

In New York, we are standing up and calling on Congress to immediately rescind impending hospital cuts that will devastate our public and safety hospitals before they take effect on October 1st and reject these last minute, dangerous attempts to repeal the ACA through the Graham - Cassidy bill.»

For more than two hours today, New York Police Department commissioner Bill Bratton met in a small room off the City Council chambers with some of his fiercest critics to discuss a wide array of public safety issues.

The county executive and his administration had been working with legislators and immigration groups to try and craft a bill that didn't run afoul of federal law, local law enforcement objections and the interest of public safety.

While it has not been fully fleshed out yet, Cuomo's proposal dictates that judges would use a scientific assessment tool to determine an individual's «risk to public safety» while setting bail, a proposal similar to one Mayor Bill de Blasio recently made, with both coming under fire from criminal justice reformers.

He said: «The bill tries to drive a false wedge between government, industry, employees and the public by restricting rights — and at worst criminalising — ordinary working people, from midwives to factory workers to challenge low - pay or health and safety concerns.

The working group will consult advocates, academics, prosecutors, defense attorneys and Mayor Bill de Blasio's Office of Criminal Justice to determine how to enforce marijuana laws equitably without sacrificing public safety, the NYPD said.

Speakers: Shaun Groden, Greene County Administrator, Bill Lawrence, chair of Greene County Legislature Committee on Public Safety, and Lori Torgersen and Pat Linger, members of the Committee on Public Safety.

«This bill delivers economic, environmental and public safety benefits, and is long overdue,» Seward said in a press release.

Part of a budget bill introduced late Friday and given final passage overnight declares the Midtown transportation hub to be «antiquated, substandard, and inadequate to meet current transportation and public safety needs and presents an unreasonable risk to the public.»

«Unfortunately, it became a very political bill that jeopardizes public safety, and I don't want to put people at risk,» he said.

The revenue is generated through a public safety surcharge on cell phone bills, however Erie County hasn't received its fair share from the state.

Mr. Schneiderman went on to say he has a bill on the floor of the Legislature to codify equal revenue sharing for public safety that has the support, for the first time, of the Suffolk County Police Benevolent Association.

«I'm proud to appoint five dedicated Floridians to the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Commission including fathers of two of the victims who were critical in helping a bill get passed quickly,» Scott stated in a news release.

Putnam said he couldn't have signed the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Act as it was, though he added that if he were to be elected Governor, the self - proclaimed «NRA sellout» would enforce the law that has led to a lawsuit from the gun group, and a ritual defenestration of House Speaker Richard Corcoran for pushing the gun control bill through.

But a new version of the bill, which was amended with an eye toward addressing some public safety concerns of a trio of key GOP members, was quietly introduced two days ago, and supporters say there is some last minute movement on the measure.

With little new education policy expected in the remainder of NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio's first term — and a quiet session on education concluding in Albany — the debate over traditional public schools versus charter schools has shifted to a new battleground: school safety.

NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton expressed confidence regarding public safety during a radio interview one day before the Memorial Day, when violence traditionally spikes as people spend more time outdoors.

At 11:15 a.m., de Blasio and NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton will host a press conference to discuss the upcoming NYC Pride March and public safety, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center, Room 101, 208 West 13th St., Manhattan.

At 1 p.m., NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton testifies before a NYC Council budget hearing on public safety, City Hall, Manhattan.

The Suffolk Legislature's Public Safety Committee effectively killed a bill that would have given it oversight over money seized by county law enforcement agencies after opposition surfaced from Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone and incoming District Attorney Timothy Sini.

At 11 a.m., NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio and NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton will host a press conference to discuss public safety, 1 Police Plaza, Manhattan.

Exceptions are made for public safety (per standing law), the active duty military (per a bill which did get passed to approve it), and things which are funded outside the standard budgeting process (such as Social Security).

The drive for the bill has won editorial support from newspapers across the state, and advocates have also enjoyed assists from top law enforcement officials — including James Sheppard, the chief of police in Rochester, and Steven Krokoff, his counterpart in Albany — who aggressively knocked down criticism from opponents of transgender civil rights protections that such laws create public safety problems in locations such as bathrooms and locker rooms.

The bill, which passed unanimously in both chambers last June, would have narrowed the definition of a safety net to include: a public hospital, with the exception of SUNY; a federally designated critical access or sole community hospital; or a hospital that has at least 50 percent of its patients uninsured or on Medicaid, 40 percent of its inpatient population covered by Medicaid, not more than 25 percent of its discharges using commercial insurance, and at least 3 percent of its patients uninsured.

The presence of the civil rights leader who has led national marches against police brutality for decades and is seen by critics as reflexively anti-police rekindled a debate about his track record on public safety at a time when his ally, Mayor Bill de Blasio, is seeking to burnish his bonds with police officers, large numbers of whom turned their backs on him at two police funerals last December.

Councilman Peter Vallone Jr. (D - Queens), who chairs the Public Safety Committee, said he would not hold a hearing on the bill.

New Deputy Mayor Dr. Herminia Palacio returned to her hometown to promote Mayor Bill de Blasio's #OurCity housing, health, homelessness and public safety agenda.

This bill delivers economic, environmental, and public safety benefits and is long overdue.»

There is little in the bill to protect us from divisive decision - making by an elected commissioner, which may have more to do with re-election than overall public safety.

During an April 24 county Board of Legislators meeting, the bill was referred to the public health and safety, legislation and budget committees.

Opponents, mostly Democrats, say the bill could endanger public safety by overriding state laws that place strict limits on guns.